Communicating with the Gods : spirit-writing in Chinese history and society / edited by Matthias Schumannm, Elena Valussi.
Few religious innovations have shaped Chinese history like the emergence of spirit-writing during the Song dynasty. From a divinatory technique it evolved into a complex ritual practice used to transmit messages and revelations from the Gods. This resulted in the production of countless religious sc...
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2024]
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| Series: | Prognostication in history ;
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Table of Contents:
- Making the gods write : a short history of spirit-written revelations in China, 1000-1400 / Vincent Goossaert
- Spirit-writing practices from the Song to Ming periods and their relation to politics and religion / Wang Chien-chuan
- Women, goddesses, and gender affinity in spirit-writing / Elena Valussi
- Terminology and typology of spirit-writing in early modern China : a preliminary study / Hu Jiechen
- The transcendent of the plate : the Lingji zhimi (instructions on the numinous stylus) and the reform of spirit-writing techniques during the first half of the twentieth century / Fan Chun-wu
- Instantiating the genealogy of the way : spirit-writing in the construction of Peng Dingqiu's Confucian pantheon / Daniel Burton-Rose
- A credulous skeptic : Ji Yun on the mantic arts and spirit-writing / Michael Lackner
- The Liu-Han altar : between a literati spirit-writing altar and popular religion / Zhu Mingchuan
- "Protecting the Dao and transmitting the classics" : the new religion to save the world and the Confucian dimension of spirit-writing in republican China / Matthias Schumann
- Spirit-writing and the Daoyuan's gendered teachings / Xia Shi
- The phoenix perches in the land of the Kami : spirit-writing from Yiguandao to Tendò„ / Nikolas Broy
- The nineteenth century spirit-writing movement and the transformation of local religion in western Guangdong / Ichiko Shiga
- The rise of spirit-writing cults in Chaozhou : reassessing the role of charitable halls / Li Guoping
- Spirit-writing altars in contemporary Hong Kong : a case study of Fei Ngan Tung Buddhism and Daoism Society / Luo Dan
- A motley phoenix? On the diversity of spirit-writing temples and their practices in Puli, Taiwan / Paul R. Katz.